July 2023 Book Club Reviews If you would like to be put on the book club mailing list, fill out this form: The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka The swimmers are unknown to each other except through their private routines (slow lane, fast lane), and the solace [...]

June 2023 Book Club Reviews If you would like to be put on the book club mailing list, fill out this form: The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning by Ben Raines    The [...]

May Book Club Reviews If you would like to be put on the book club mailing list, fill out this form: Lost & Found: A Memoir by Kathryn Schulz    Eighteen months before Kathryn Schulz's father died, she met the woman she would marry. In [...]

April Book Club Reviews If you would like to be put on the book club mailing list, fill out this form: The Fervor: A Novel by Alma Katsu   1944: As World War II rages on, the threat has come to the home front. In [...]

March Book Club Reviews If you would like to be put on the book club mailing list, fill out this form: Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou   Twenty-nine-year-old PhD student Ingrid Yang is desperate to finish her dissertation on the late canonical poet Xiao-Wen Chou and never [...]

February Book Club Reviews If you would like to be put on the book club mailing list, fill out this form: The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan  Frida Liu is struggling. She doesn’t have a career worthy of her Chinese immigrant parents’ sacrifices. What’s [...]

January Book Club Reviews If you would like to be put on the book club mailing list, fill out this form: The Idiot by Elif Batuman The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year [...]

December Book Club Reviews If you would like to be put on the book club mailing list, fill out this form: Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev It is a truth universally acknowledged that only in an overachieving Indian American family can a [...]

November Book Club Reviews If you would like to be put on the book club mailing list, fill out this form: The Sweetness At The Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley  It is the summer of 1950–and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young [...]

October Book Club Reviews If you would like to be put on the book club mailing list, fill out this form: Autumn by Ali Smith  "Smith's latest novel, Autumn, is the first of a quartet planned to span the four seasons. Set this past summer and fall in [...]